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Rice Building, upper and lower levels

Overview: For the first time, the bulk of the Art Institute of Chicago's world-renowned collection of American art can now be seen together in a chronological series of galleries located on the first and second floors of the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Building. This assemblage--drawn from a collection of some 3,500 works dating from the colonial period to 1950--is enriched by an historic long-term loan agreement with the Terra Foundation for American Art, which has contributed 50 of their greatest paintings and a stellar selection of works on paper, making the Art Institute one of the major centers for American art in the world. In addition to the work of such beloved artists as George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, and John Singer Sargent, visitors will be able to enjoy an in-depth presentation of Modernist giants such as Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and Grant Wood--all in one splendid, enlightening presentation.

Curator: Judith Barter, Field-McCormick Curator of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago.

Grant Wood. American Gothic, 1930. Friends of American Art Collection.